The Dalma Tradition : Prehistoric Inter-Regional Cultural Integration in Highland Western Iran

Henrickson, Elizabeth F.; Vitali, Vanda

doi:10.3406/paleo.1987.4427

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“…During the MC period various types of wares represent developments in pottery productions and also communications with the adjacent regions. The reports concerning presence of IDW types even in Azerbaijan region verifies this fact of interactions (Hamlin, 1975;Henrickson & Vidali, 1987). Archaeological evidences from CZM, show two distinct economic strategies taking place in the MC period.…”

Section: The Settlement Pattern and Distribution Of Ware Types In Thesupporting

confidence: 58%

Analyzing Typical Characteristics of Central Zagros Potteries during the Chalcolithic Period

Behzad¹,

Niknami²,

Harsini³

2013

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Some 152 Chalcolithic sites were identified by the means of an archaeological surface survey in the Central Zagros mountainous region. As a whole, the analysis of data shows that the majority volume of finding pottery groups is classified as Red-Slipped Wares belonging to the Late Chalcolithic period. Beside this, the Black on Buff Wares and also the Impress Dalma Wares (Middle Chalcolithic) are the two types dominating the samples. The altitude of the settlements has risen by transition from the Early to the Late Chalcolithic periods. By Middle Chalcolithic we confronted different kinds of potteries indicating an improvement in the pottery making techniques or communicating with the neighboring regions. The Late Chalcolithic societies have witnessed a decline in the pottery types produced, but dramatic increases in the production rates. All factors show that in the Late Chalcolithic, population has been increased and a category of settlement systems have been propagated in the region which includes agricultural village-based pastoralism and nomadism.

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Section: The Settlement Pattern and Distribution Of Ware Types In Thesupporting

confidence: 58%

Analyzing Typical Characteristics of Central Zagros Potteries during the Chalcolithic Period

Behzad¹,

Niknami²,

Harsini³

2013

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“…Henrickson and Vitali have previously advanced a similar view on the similarities in distribution of cultural material in assemblages from the fifth millennium B.C. Zagros and northwestern Iran (Henrickson and Vitali 1987). While similar views have also been espoused for cultural relations of eighth and seventh millennium B.C.…”

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The Archaeological Landscape of the Neolithic Period in the Western Foothills of the Zagros Mountains: New Evidence From the Sar Pol-E Zahāb Region, Iran-Iraq Borderland

Alibaigi¹,

Salimiyan²

2020

Iraq

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A recent survey in the western foothills of the Zagros Mountains has located five new Neolithic sites. We present here the occupational features and finds of this period in the Sar Pol-e Zahāb region, along with an interpretation of their distribution and associated settlement patterns. Our research indicates that the visible distribution of Neolithic sites is highly influenced by geomorphological factors. All sites are located on natural outcrops or on the edge of alluvial plains. Many others have certainly been buried beneath layers of later sedimentation. All of the sites identified by our survey are small and of modest elevation, with cultural remains, particularly ceramics, similar to Neolithic sites such as Guran and Sarāb in the central Zagros region and Jarmo and Tamarkhan in Mesopotamia. Based on the ceramic evidence and the location of the region, between the central Zagros mountains on the east and Mesopotamia on the west, we suggest that this vast area maintained an integrated ceramic tradition, which suggests an overall cultural homogeneity of these areas during the seventh and early sixth millennia B.C. In other words, these recent discoveries indicate that similarities in Neolithic material culture in the Māhidasht, Kermanshāh and Hulailan plains with material culture of regions in Mesopotamia are not accidental or random but indicative of a large coherent zone with unique ceramic and cultural traditions (the patterned ceramic tradition of Sarāb-Jarmo), extending from Iraqi Kurdistan east into the central Zagros range. Regarding the lack of eighth and seventh millennium B.C. sites in the northern reaches of the Iranian part of the Zagros range, we may consider the pathway of Sar Pol-e Zahāb a primary route for transporting obsidian to upland areas of the central Zagros. This also suggests a lasting network of cross-regional communications, since archaeological discoveries prove this pathway was the main node connecting these two cultural regions for a long period of time.

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“…A similar conclusion can be drawn from the survey results in the region. Provenance analysis has also shown that all Dalma ceramics were produced locally (Vitali, Henrickson 1987;Tonoike 2009 (Achundov 2007;Müseyi-bli 2007;Lyonnet 2007b;Lyonnet et al 2008;2012;Marro 2010;2012;Helwing 2012), Eastern Anatolia (Frangipane 2012) and Northern Mesopotamia (Stient 2012) enable scholars to define the chronological range of the Chalcolithic and build up a solid internal periodisation and properly articulated timeline for regional developments in this phase (Marro 2012).…”

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“…Dalma is an unusual ceramic phenomenon for this time range: a widespread, but technically and stylistically homogeneous material cultural tradition, at home in a topographically severe highland region. The Dalma period is particu-larly interesting because of the extremely large geographic spread of its ceramics, ranging from the 'widely separated mountain plains such as the (Dyson 1962;Hamlin 1975;Henrickson, Vitali 1987;Hole 1987;Levine, Young 1987;Solecki, Solecki 1973;Vandiver 1985;Voigt, Dyson 1992;Young, Levine 1974;Pecorella, Salvini 1984;Kroll 1984;1994;Tonoike 2009;Vitali, Henrickson 1987;Hamlin 1975;Hole 1987b;Oates 1983.261;Voigt, Dyson 1992). Recently, scholars have suggested a combination of factors, such as trade and exchange, the movement of material goods and information, migration, diffusion, and local emulations of foreign styles to explain Dalma cultural phenomena (Voigt 1983;Tonoike 2009).…”

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Fifth and fourth millennium BC in north-western Iran: Dalma and Pisdeli revisited

2015

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This paper discusses the nature of Dalma and Pisdeli cultures, their regional and interregional interactions and expansions in 5th millennium BC. It discusses old and new excavations and surveys as well. According to the importance of the material from these periods found at newly-excavated sites such as Kul Tepe Jolfa, Dava Göz Khoy, Lavin Tepe, and Qosha Tepe, we briefly describe the main stratigraphic and material data from these sites. Old and new data from excavations and surveys eventually lead us to a new chronological table for the 5th millennium BC in north/western (NW) Iran. The implications of the finds are discussed along with their limitations and future research directions.

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The Dalma Tradition : Prehistoric Inter-Regional Cultural Integration in Highland Western Iran

Cited by 19 publications

References 1 publication

Analyzing Typical Characteristics of Central Zagros Potteries during the Chalcolithic Period

Analyzing Typical Characteristics of Central Zagros Potteries during the Chalcolithic Period

The Archaeological Landscape of the Neolithic Period in the Western Foothills of the Zagros Mountains: New Evidence From the Sar Pol-E Zahāb Region, Iran-Iraq Borderland

Fifth and fourth millennium BC in north-western Iran: Dalma and Pisdeli revisited

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